effusive?

[tamborine]

"the vendor has effusived your offer. Does that mean he's insulted; excited; bemused - is the offer refused or accepted?

[jackintheboxes]

1 : marked by the expression of great or excessive emotion or enthusiasm <effusive praise>

Id say excited.

[joggerjayne]

Tambo ... you just made that up !

Effuse is not a verb. It just isn't.

Not in proper English.

And if it were a verb, it would not be a transitive verb which could apply to an offer.

Someone is trying to b u l l s h i t you !!

[tamborine]

JJ - the estate agent's reply for a property for sale that we offered less than asking price.

Not me - these fffff EA trying to be toooooo clever & I dont know whether the sale is on or off?

[joggerjayne]

EAs don't half talk some sh!t

Ask him how the seller "effusived"

Was it a positive effusive, or a less promising effusive.

Then ask him when his "Basic English Grammar" night classes are due to start.

[Quizmonster]

Given that you offered less than the asking price, isn't it likely that the agent really intended to write, "The vendor has refused your offer"? Maybe he/she scribbled that out and the typist misread it. Certainly, as has already been pointed out, there is no way the word effusived is possible in the context.

[fredpuli47]

Or it may have been a very enthusiastic refusal. The vendor may have refussived.

[bushbaby_de]

or expletived your offer?

[crisgal]

sounds like Jon culshaw as President Bush!!